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.H. B. OORNISH & J. B. MOORE.

COFFEE POT.

No. 361,489. Patented Apr. 19, 1887.

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ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY B; CORNISH AND JOHN B. MOORE, OF BLUE EARTH CITY, MINN.

COFFEE-POT.

\ SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,489, dated April 19, 1887.

Application filed December 21, 1886. Serial No. 222,473. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HARRY BUTTON COR- NISH and J OHN BENJAMIN MOORE, both of Blue Earth Oity,in the county of Faribault and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and Improved Coffee-Pot, of which-the following is a specification, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming a part thereof, in which Figure 1 is a vertical transverse section of our improved coffee-pot, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the percolator;

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

The object of our invention is to provide a coffee-pot in which coffee may be made by drical portion a is fitted a cover, 0, and to the bottom of the conical part b are secured two downwardly-convex bars, d. To the smaller end of the conical portion 1) is fitted a ring, 0, which is connected with one side of the conical part b by a hinge-joint, f. In the opposite side of the conical part b is raised a ridge, 9,

ket formed of the bars (Z (Z while the ring 6 is open, and is clamped in place on the lower end of the conical part b by closing the ring over it, as shown in Fig. 1.

Ground coffee is placed in the basket, where it is supported by the cloth h, and the coffee is extracted from it by pouring hot water through it, the extract being received in the coffee-pot B.

\Vhen the cloth it becomes clogged or otherwise unfit for use, it may be readily detached by removing the ring 6.

Having thus fully described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent The combination, with the percolator A,having the cross-bars cl at its lower end and the projection g, on its outer surface near its lower end, of the ring 6, Wired around its upper edge and hinged to the 'percolator at a point opposite the projection g, the wired upper edge of the ring being adapted to snap over and be held by said projection, whereby a cloth may be readily clamped between the ring and the lower end of the percolator, substantiall y as set forth.

HARRY B. CORNISFI. JOHN B. MOORE.

Witnesses:

S. W. GRAHAM, D. F. GOODRICH. 

